Ontario Liberals Elect First Openly Gay Canadian Premier

TORONTO—Ontario's governing Liberal party elected Kathleen Wynne as party leader, elevating the first openly gay politician as the premier of a Canadian province.

Ms. Wynne, whose victory came in a party vote Saturday to succeed Premier Dalton McGuinty, takes the reins of Canada's most populous province and one of its most powerful engines of economic growth. She joins three other women already running Canada's most powerful...